Addictions
I have struggled with my addiction since i was 12 years old after buying my first brand new little Harley-Davidson 90cc motorcycle by throwing a paper route...Still got it today...the bike, the addiction....and just about every other motorcycle i bought since then....i just cant kick the habit!...and to make it worse....there not your normal common brands...i am sick! ![wacko.gif](style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif)
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QUOTE (speedracer @ Jan 15 2013, 07:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Promod,post up some pics of your favorite bikes,always have a soft spot for vintage MX bikes.
SpeedRacer!, Thats a hard thing to do..with so many its really hard to pic!, but here are a few of them from pics in past i took, some are very rare factory race bikes, prototype bikes and production, as stated before always been into Italian motorcycles (never owned or raced jap bikes and the Cannondale bikes was the first brand not being Italian that caught my eye and love them as much as i still love Italian bikes which i still ride & race current Italian bikes also like Husky's & TM's (not KTM's!) which the first little 90cc Harley i bought when i was 12 years old as mentioned before was made in Italy by Aermacchi which was owned by HD and they produced lightweight bikes from 1961-1978 in various sizes from 50-350cc in street, dual purpose, racing form, 2 and 4 stroke, HD was in hard times by the end of '78 and sold the company in Italy to Cagiva also in Italy who continued making the same bikes HD was offered but re-badged them as Cagiva's, in 1986 Cagiva bought the about defunct Husqvarna plant from Sweden, brought the tooling back to Italy and offered them now with a few updates as they were a hybrid Italian/Swedish mix Husky and also bought out the already dead Ducati italian plant, MV Agusta and CZ, But Cagiva was also producing there own new designed motocross race bikes and won the world 125 & 250 mx championship several times on them in the mid '80's, but Cagiva's name was not going anywhere in the states..even though by then they were the 5th largest bike manufacturer in the world, So in 1990 Cagiva re-badged there own designed off-road bikes and started calling them Husqvarna's as that name has been well known since there beginning in 1903 and the swedish designed husky's died off...but the italian cagiva huskys was a lot more advance and far superior in performance and quality as all italian things are!...well this story can go on and on, but i started on the little italian HD's and had great HD-USA & HD-Italy support racing them, then when sold to Cagiva was the second person to import one and also recieved great support from them and still have contact with them today but Cagiva's name is now under the MV Agusta umbrella but still makes Cagiva street and dual purpose bikes and still makes the italian made Huskys but makes them for BMW who bought Husky several years back!...well rambling now, but here are some pics of just a few of my favorite and some very rare prototype bikes! but i will have to post several at a time in different replies but/and dont want to waste forum space as some guys here might not appreciate it! Ciao! MW
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Note of correction though: I do have one little jap bike in my collection and that is a Yamaha PW50 Y-Zinger that my youngest daughter started off on at 4 years old and just kept it for sentimental reasons which she is 24 now, and i do have grand children!, and i do ride a new Triumph sport-touring bike made in the U.K.!
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QUOTE (promod @ Jan 18 2013, 11:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And here are a few more, some pics i had planned to put on here was to large to download...to bad as you would have loved them! ![sad.gif](style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif)
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QUOTE (speedracer @ Jan 18 2013, 04:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
How does the Harley with the forks for shocks ride?
For competition like plush pogo sticks!
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